Quotes About Compromise

Ninety percent of the art of living consists of getting along with people you cannot stand.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

War: A by-product of the arts of peace.

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

Legislation is the art of compromise.

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair

Politics is the art of the possible.

I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

But sometimes life made you give up what you loved most. Sometimes there were no compromises or bargains.

he had to move to L.A., on her terms. And he

anyway. He plays the same old stuff every time. I'll have Charlie let him

Sadly enough, one rarely marries the candlelight and champagne. One marries instead the blue jeans and rumpled t-shirts, the Coca Cola and burnt toast, and one puts away the candlelight and champagne in a magic box. In the long run, I guess Coca Cola and burnt toast are easier to live with

lot of getting along with other people is more about making a decision that you want to get along and then doing whatever is necessary to keep the peace.

So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less?